Sewing machine attachment



Aug. 29, 1933. A. CLARK 1,924,981

SEWING MACHINE ATTACHMENT Filed Sept. 9, 1931 65 a; 525 03 ix I 2 '6 A..B.ClaPhL 3 Patented Aug. 29, 1933 UNITED STATES SEWING MACHINE ATTACHMENT Andrew B. Clark, Thomasville, Ga., assignor of one-half to Judge Roscoe Luke, Thomasville,

Application September 9, 1931. Serial No. 561,919

1 Claim.

This invention aims to provide a simple but effective means whereby a piece of thread may be carried through the eye of a needle, regardless of whether the needle be mounted upon a sewing machine, or be held in the hand.

In the accompanying drawing:-

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section showing a device constructed in accordance with the invention;

Figure 2 is an elevation of the structure shown in Figure 1, parts being broken away.

In the drawing, the device is shown as comprising a tubular carrier 57, in one'end of which a stop ring 58 is secured. A slide 59, in the form of a rod, is mounted for reciprocation in the ring 58. The slide 59 includes an enlarged body 60 which is mounted closely but slidably in the carrier 57. The slide rod 59 has an outstanding the carrier 57, the parts 61 and 62 cooperating to prevent relative rotation between the carrier 5'7 and the slide rod 59. The slide 59 has an longitudinal bore 63, in which the threading finger 64 is closely but slidably received. Thethreading finger 64 is provided at its working end with an undercut notch 65. The rear end of the threading finger 64 is secured in a block 66, which is fastened in one end of the tubular carrier 57. A compression spring 67 surrounds the threading finger e": and is located within the tubular carrier 57. One end of the spring'fi'l abuts against the block 5 and the opposite end of the spring abuts against the body 60 of the slide 59, to advance the slide, as in Figure 1, until the forward end of the body 60 engages the stop ring 58, the working end of the threading finger 64 then being housed within the bore 63 of the slide. In the end of the slide 59 there is a groove 40 or seat 68, adapted to receive the needle which is rib 61, received slidably in a slot 62 formed in to he threaded. On the outer end of the slide 59- there is a laterally extended socket 69, into which a screw 70 is threaded, for the purpose, or supporting the devices in any accessible place.

The end of the needle to be threaded is placed in the groove 68 of the slide 59, and when relative longitudinal movement between the slide 59 and the carrier 5'7 takes place, the working end of the threading finger 64 will be reoiprocated through the eye of the needle, and the needle will be threaded, the thread, of course, being mounted in the undercut notch 65 of the threading finger 64. Because the threading finger 64 fits closely in the bore 63, and because the notch 65 is housed in the bore when the parts are in the position 01 Fig. 1, the notch willnot become clogged with dirt.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

A device of the class described, comprising a tubular carrier, a slide in the carrier and having a transverse needle-receiving seat in' its outer end, the slide having a longitudinal bore leading to the seat, a threading finger secured to the carrier and having a lateral notch, the notch being housed in the bore when the finger is retracted and the finger filling the bore, thereby to keep the notch free of dirt, the length of the finger being such that when it is retracted, the end of the finger is substantially flush with the base of the seat, thereby to aid in keeping the bore free of dirt, spring means for producing relative longitudinal movement between the carrier and the slide, thereby to retract the finger, means for limiting said relative longitudinal movement responsive to the spring means, and means for holding the slide and the carrier against relative rotation.

ANDREW B. CLARK. 

